Lawyers for a west suburban man charged with plotting to set off a bomb outside a Chicago bar won't be able to probe whether investigators used information collected from controversial government surveillance programs to launch the terrorism sting operation that led to the man's arrest, a federal judge has ruled.

Attorneys for Adel Daoud had asked U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman to order prosecutors to disclose "any and all" surveillance information used in Daoud's case, including information disclosed to a U.S. Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence. The attorneys also wanted to be present when prosecutors presented their justification for search warrants and other intelligence gathering in the case.

But Coleman denied the motion in a brief ruling posted late Friday, writing that the defense had "failed to provide any basis for issuing such an order."

Daoud's attorney, Thomas Anthony Durkin, said in a written statement today that he was "not surprised" by the ruling but expected the issue to ultimately be decided by higher courts.

The effort to get to the bottom of what happened "is very procedurally complicated and hampered by the government's refusal to give notice of what exactly transpired regarding the electronic surveillance," Durkin said.

Daoud, 20, of Hillside, came under FBI scrutiny after posting messages online about killing Americans, authorities have said. He was arrested in September 2012 after being accused of trying to detonate what he thought was a powerful car bomb outside a bar in the Loop. FBI analysts posing as terrorists exchanged messages with him and ultimately helped him plan an attack.

Daoud, who has pleaded not guilty, is set to go on trial on terrorism charges in April. He also is facing separate charges he tried from jail to solicit the murder of one of the FBI agents in the case.

The case has become a lightning rod for criticism in the months since former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden exposed the breadth of the nation's secret surveillance programs.

In comments on the Senate floor a few months after Daoud's arrest, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., referred to the case as one in which the enhanced surveillance was able to nab a would-be terrorist.

Prosecutors have said that even if such surveillance existed, they do not intend to use it at trial and the defense wasn't entitled to it. A federal judge found probable cause for the search warrants in the case, and if Daoud's attorneys want to try to suppress the materials gathered in the investigation, they should do so through normal channels, prosecutors said.

In a hearing before Coleman earlier this month, Durkin argued he no longer trusts what federal prosecutors tell him in terrorism-related cases because he believes the spy agencies keep prosecutors in the dark.

"It's not because they're hiding anything," said Durkin, gesturing to the prosecution table. "But because things are being hidden from them."

Durkin said that the country is "at a crossroads" and asked the judge to put her foot down when it comes to intelligence agencies being allowed to "operate in the dark."

"Step up and simply say the time has come for the adversarial process to be permitted," Durkin told Coleman. "It would go a long way toward restoring a lot of lost faith in this country."

Coleman, however, signaled at the time that Durkin may be overreaching.